Clothesline-pulley



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CLOTHESLINE 'PULL EY.

APPLICATION FILED news, 1919.

1,373,130. Patented Mar. 29,1921.

UNITED ST T??? WENDEL HAHN, 01 NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHESLINE-PULLEY.

Application filed December 16, 1919.

To all whom it may cancer/t:

Be it known that l, Tanner. llann, a citizen of Hungary, and a resident of New or r, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothcsline- Pulleys, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to inuu'ovements in clothes-line pulleys, and has for one of its objects to provide a simple, inexpensive and durable device of this character which can be readily fastened to a wall, or other support, and easily detached there from, and which is provided with means for moving the clothes-line in either direction so as to facilitate the placing of the clothes thereon or their removal therefrom.

Another object of the inventioirl is to pro duce a clothes-line holder of the character described which may be manufactured on a commercial scale, or in other words one which is not so diflieult to make as to be beyond the reasonable cost of such contrivancc.

With these and other objects in View, which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the

same consists in the combination, arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and propontion of the several parts and details of construction within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

One of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is. a side elevation of a clothesline, its holder and support; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the holder proper, on a larger scale; and Fig. 3 is a section taken 011 l1ne 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates a support, having a pulley 11 secured thereto, upon which is arranged an endless clothes-line 12. The inner end of this clothes-line is in en agement with the holder proper. This hol er comprises a bracket Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. .29, 1921.

SeriaI No. 345,248.

13, attached to a wall for instance window frame, by means of screw-bolts 15, or otherwise. From this bracket GlibtBlUJf-l sidewise a horizontally disposed spindle 16, on which is rotatably mounted a grooved pulley 17. To this pulley is eccentrically attached a handle 18, to rotate the same. With the bracket 13 are made integral, or there may be attached thereto, two standards 19, extending radially in opposite directions beyond the periphery of the pulley 17. One of these standards projects above the pulley and the other one below the same, they carrying each a grooved sheave 20. These sheaves are spaced from the pulley and serve as guiding means for the line.

The bracket 13 is provided in front of the pulley, preferably at a point at right angles to the connecting line between the centers oi the sheaves 20, with a sidewardly extending projection 21. This projection is disposed adjacent the periphery of the pulley, its face 22, juxtaposed to the pulley, being curved to accommodate, with the or other support -14,

groove in the pulley 17, the line 12, prevent.

ing the same from leaving the said pulley.

In applying the device, one end of the clothes-line is drawn under the upper one of the sheaves 20, pulley 17 between the projection 21, drawn over the lower sheave 20 and around the pulley 11, the two ends thereof being then tied together. It will be understood that, when the pulley 17 is rotated, the clothesline may be moved. backward or forward, as desired. The sheaves 20 and the projection 21 properly guide the movement of the line, so that it cannot leave the pulley 17. Inasmuch asthe sheaves 20 are disposed at diametrically opposite portions of the pulley 17 as clearly appears from Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the line cannot be crossed on the said pulley, so that the latter is always free to turn.

What I claim is In a device of the character described, the combination with a bracket, of a grooved pulley rotatably mounted thereon, two standards on said bracket extending in opposite directions beyond the periphery of said pulley, a grooved guide sheave carried by each of said standards adjacent the peripli passed. partly around the cry of said pulley, and a sidewardly extending projection on said bracket disposed adj acent the periphery of said pulley, the face of said projection juxtaposed to the pulley being curved to accommodate with the groove in said pulley a clothes lines, said projection being disposed on said bracket at a point at right angles to the connecting line between the centers of said two sheaves.

Signed at New York, in the county of 10 New York and State of New York, this 15th day of December, 1919.

VVENDEL HAHN. 

